Turn by Turn Navigation US + CAN offline version released

The other day we mentioned how the company GPS Tuner was gearing up for a release of their offline mapping solution for Windows Phone. What makes 'Turn by Turn Navigation US + CAN' unique when compared to the newly released Navigon is that you can select individual map regions to download as opposed to the whole country. As you can see above, we're downloading the Northeast US and it comes in at a humble 231MB which is a lot lighter than the 1.6GB Navigon makes you download.

The app is priced at $28.99, which considering the options you're getting, sounds pretty decent. Navigon is similarly priced in the US but that's just temporary until it gets bumped to $50, in that sense in the long run this app is certainly more cost efficient. Other features include:

Voice-Guided Turn by Turn Navigation with premium audio quality

Full detailed Navteq maps

Automatic Map rotation according to your heading

POI and address search

Add POI-s or locations to Favorites

Route calculation based on Time or Distance

Supporting Portrait and Landscape mode

Automatic re-routing if you miss a turn

Speed dependent Volume control

Driving and Walking directions

US and Metric units are supported

Itinerary (turn list for planned routes)

Avoid Highway/Toll roads option

We're obviously in the middle of downloading some maps and we'll see about throwing up a video. Oh and best part? Unlike Navigon, you DO have a trial, so give it a go here in the Marketplace. And we expect a European version sometime soon too.

One thing that we can gripe about? It's not a Mango app. So no fast app switching nor is there any contacts integration, making quick routing a pain.